Decontamination team enters the apartment of a second Dallas nurse infected with Ebola. (Dallas Police Department)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Dallas County authorities are anticipating more possible Ebola cases as a
second nurse who had treated the first victim of Ebola diagnosed on
U.S. soil was infected with the virus, a county official said on
Wednesday.
"We are preparing contingencies
for more, and that is a very real possibility," Dallas County Judge Clay
Jenkins, the county's chief political officer, said at a news
conference with other local officials.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said
city officials moved to clean affected areas after the nurse was
diagnosed and to alert her neighbors in an apartment complex.
"We rallied together and we decided to move quickly," said Rawlings, adding that he visited the complex earlier Wednesday.
The second nurse infected at
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where the first Ebola patient to die
in the United States was treated, lives alone and has no pets, Rawlings
said.
The hospital is doing everything
it can to contain the virus, said Dr. Daniel Varga of Texas Health
Resources, which owns the hospital. "I don't think we have a systematic
institutional problem," he said.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Susan Heavey and Mohammad Zargham)
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